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δίωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: δίωσις δίωσεως

Structure: διωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a pushing off, delaying

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • κωλυόμενον δὲ κάτω ποιεῖσθαι τὴν δίωσιν, ὅταν ἐνταυθοῖ ποτε τὸ σφοδρότατον ᾖ τῆσ φλεγμονῆσ, εἰσ τὰ πλησιάζοντα τῶν ὑπερκειμένων ἐντέρων ἀπωθεῖται. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., G, section 1349)

Synonyms

  1. a pushing off

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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